Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent war is for us to disarm--not necessarily concurrently with the other nations, but alone, as an example for the other nations to follow. Since this chimerical statement by itself is not enough to soften the skulls of most Americans, its advocates resort to another more potent argument. They say that disarmament will reduce taxes, will put money into the pockets of us all; and under the melting influence of this argument, American skulls are softened by the million, and we plunge blindly into measures to reduce our taxes, fooling ourselves all the time with the high-sounding generality...
Bowers was the second speaker for the University. His speech was based upon a refutation of the argument that America should join the League in order to help Europe. The effectiveness of America's entry, he said, would be negatived by European diplomacy and intrigue, and the U. S. could not reach the root of European troubles, the Treaty of Versailles for the League itself is unable to alter the provisions of the Treaty. Not only is the League unable to change the Treaty which is the source of Europe's troubles, but the League is the very instrument used...
...judges in the second year are usually lawyers from Boston. Besides executing their offices as judges, they are also to furnish the facts for each case brought before them. In the third year, lawyers and judges are secured to sit on the cases. Last year the final argument was held before one judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, one former judge of the same Court, and the judge for the Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit...
...then only, will the college be even approximating its ideal. These are the sole ways in which to attack the problem; for the student himself who is so weak as to rely on "notes" for a passing mark cannot be convinced of the evil of his ways by argument, utilitarian or otherwise. The hypodermic must be put out of his reach...
...question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must do so if he is to succeed in his chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely. Not that "the man on the street" ought to be able to distinguish at first hearing, the difference in sound and meaning of "Epithalamium" and "Epipsychidion"; but that, if only for his own good, he should respect the basic principles of his native tongue...